charmcraft pack fails trying to include a non-existing charm/src/.tox/
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charmcraft pack failed when copying non-existent build directories or files. Users worked around it with charmcraft clean. The issue was closed as fixed upstream in the underlying parts lifecycle code.
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Issue body
My worktree does not have an `src/.tox` subfolder. Log attached.
After running pack again, it worked fine.
[charmcraft.log](https://github.com/canonical/charmcraft/files/7022238/charmcraft.log)
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | charmcraft pack failed when copying non-existent build directories or files. Users worked around it with charmcraft clean. The issue was closed as fixed upstream in the underlying parts lifecycle code. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | charmcraft pack failed when packaging deleted directories like .tox or .git. Users worked around it with charmcraft clean. The issue was closed after the underlying lifecycle bug was resolved upstream in craft-parts. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | charmcraft pack failed copying non-existent directories from prior builds. Users worked around it with charmcraft clean or .jujuignore. The issue was closed after being fixed upstream in the underlying build system. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | charmcraft pack fails copying non-existent directories from prior builds. Users work around it with charmcraft clean. The defect stems from an upstream craft-parts lifecycle bug. Closed as the issue has been fixed upstream. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | charmcraft pack fails when copying deleted build artifacts. Resolved by fixing the craft-parts lifecycle upstream. Workaround involves running charmcraft clean. Closed as fixed. |
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| #710 `charmcraft pack` retains no longer existing files from previous packs | charmcraft | open | charmcraft pack includes files deleted from the working directory in the charm archive; clean fixes it. Triaged as a known bug, re-confirmed present in Oct 2024, upstream craft-parts bug filed, per-part clean workaround documented. | |
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